Is calling someone African American racist?

[Flammable Ice]

Simply using a term is not inherently racist. If a doctor says "black people are more susceptible to diabetes" (I think that's true), then is he a racist for referring to "black" people, even though he's only trying to help people look out for the conditions that they are more vulnerable too? Of course not.

[Arroza]

I've never used the term "African-American."

Just Negro.

Not sure if that's racist or not, but I thought it was the proper term.

"Those Negros are enjoying a game of Baseball."

Yeah, that would probably have gotten you hurt in my old neighborhood.

3. Non-responsive, but I'd love for you to explain how African-American isn't an ethnicity. Because you define the word differently that it is generally used?

African isn't an ethnicity. American isn't an ethnicity. Ergo African-American isn't an ethnicity.

An ethnic group is a group of human beings whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or presumed.[1][2]

Ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness[3] and the recognition of common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioural or biological traits,[1][4] real or presumed, as indicators of contrast to other groups.[5]

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1. A group of human beings. CHECK
2. Who's members identify with each other. CHECK
3. Through a common heritage that is real or presumed. CHECK
4. Recognition by others of common biological traits as contrast to others. CHECK

We may not be a ethnic group in the same way that recent immigrants are, but we do fit the definition of an ethnic group.

[Rolling Dead]

I've never used the term "African-American."

Just Negro.

Not sure if that's racist or not, but I thought it was the proper term.

"Those Negros are enjoying a game of Baseball."

Yeah, that would probably have gotten you hurt in my old neighborhood.

Not surpised honestly, people get butthurt about such things. Being a Negro can get you hurt in my neck of the woods.

Would calling someone Mexican-American be racist also?

[EvilDarkMagicians]

I've never used the term "African-American."

Just Negro.

Not sure if that's racist or not, but I thought it was the proper term.

"Those Negros are enjoying a game of Baseball."

To close to nigger in my book.